When Jamie Dupuis brought out his triple-necked harp guitar in a video on his YouTube channel, it was hard to believe what you were seeing. Instead of an ordinary single-necked guitar, this one had strings spread across three different-sized necks. At first glance, a guitar like this might seem impossible to play. When it turned out Jamie was going to play a cover of ‘House of the Rising Sun’, made famous by The Animals, it seemed he had a gargantuan task ahead of him.
When Music Man fans hear him begin to play, they will be astonished, not only by his incredible talent, but by the sound the instrument produces. With the variety of strings on the guitar, the sound is more like a harp than a traditional guitar. It’s astonishing to see Jamie play across the different necks in a complex arrangement of the song.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone take a cover of a song and make it so much more challenging to play, while still managing to capture the spirit of the song. I was absolutely gobsmacked to see how fast Jamie’s fingers were able to move over the frets. Of course, I had to go and check out Jamie’s other covers and see if they were just as impressive as this one.
This is not the only harp guitar Jamie plays. On his channel, he can be seen playing a variety of them, including two-necked guitars. While Music Man fans may assume that his three-necked guitar covers must be the most impressive, one of Jamie’s most popular covers is on an 18-string harp guitar. The cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ on the 18-string guitar is so beautiful it could move listeners to tears.
Jamie Dupuis’ covers not only highlight his incredible technical talent, but also his incredible creativity. Not only has he managed to play complex covers of songs that everyone knows and loves, but he has reimagined them in a way that has made them entirely his own. There is no doubt that listeners will continue to return to these covers over and over again, and wait with bated breath for him to upload his next astonishing rendition.